Earlier, Dexter
had been stalking Freebo at his house,
when he accidentally stumbled into a fight scene and was forced to kill
Oscar Prado in self defense. Freebo himself escaped during the melee.

Both Dexter
and the police were now hunting Freebo. And when Freebo's girlfriend, Teegan,
turns up dead, everyone (including Dexter) assumes that Freebo murdered
her.

To try to find
clues about Freebo's possible whereabouts, Dexter breaks into this house.
It is the home of his dead girlfriend,Teegan, and what Dexter doesn't
know is that Freebo is hiding out there.

So Dex is surprised
when he spots a nude Freebo walking around Teegan's house.

Unprepared,
Dexter hurries home to get his killing tools, then returns and dispatches
Freebo in his usual bloody ritual.

Little does
Dexter know, however, that assistant district attorney Miguel Prado has
also come to Teegan's house that night, looking for his brother's killer.
Instead, Prado bumps into Dexter, catching him literally red-handed, still
holding the knife he used to kill Freebo.

Dexter is shocked,
however, when the gun-wielding Prado doesn't arrest him, but instead hugs
him warmly, and thanks him for killing the man who (Miguel believes) murdered
his brother.

It turns out
that Prado had come there hoping to kill Freebo himself, but unsure of
whether he would be able to go through with it -and
he is relieved that Dexter did the deed for him.

( UPDATE: In the fourth season, they used the back of this
same home once again, in the scene where Dexter looks in the window of
a supposedly vacant house and sees a
nude woman having sex. ).

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A residential
home, but not in Miami.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. The house
is directly across the street from the Sunset-Gower studio where "Dexter"
is filmed, on Gordon Street.

I'm 99% sure
it's the house at 1432 Gordon Street,
in Hollywood, on the east side of the
street.

But if you take
another look at the scene, you'll notice that the entire scene was shot
in the back yard of the home, so the front of the house is never seen.
And since the aerial photos can't show many details of the tree-covered
back yard, I can't be 100% positive.

Dexter is seen
coming out of the home's back door, and later dragging Freebo's unconscious
body across the back yard, to a garage, where he killed Freebo. The
house is real, of course, as is the yard (where he is later confronted
by Miguel Prado). The interior of that garage, though, where Dexter
supposedly killed Freebo, was actually just a set built at the studio.
But there actually is a detached garage back there, hidden under all those
trees.

[
Warning: This is a private home. Do not
knock on their door, trespass on their property, or do
anything else that might disturb the residents. And don't even think
of entering their back yard! ]

Don't confuse
this house (which is the home of Freebo's dead girlfriend, Teegan) with
Freebo's own house, which was located
in San Pedro.

Q.
How the heck did you figure out where it was?

A. This
was almost impossible. The front of the house is never shown, and there
just weren't enough clues in the dark back yard scene to allow me to find
it somewhere in all of greater L.A.

Because
Freebo's own house was in San Pedro (and
Teegan's murder site was there as well),
my initial guess was that this house would probably be nearby those two
other locations. But I was wrong.

After
spending ages hunting for it in Pedro, and turning up nothing, I eventually
gave up finding it on my own.

It
wasn't until later, when I received a tip (from a departed artist) that
the house was really across the street from the studio, that I eventually
found it. (Thanks!)

Even
then, pinpointing the exact house on the street wasn't easy, since I didn't
know what the front of the house looked like, and the aerial photos didn't
reveal much of the back yard. Finally, though, I was able to pick up on
a few small but important details in the aerial photos (centering around
the back roof and general layout), and nailed down what I believe is the
exact location.